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I woke up in a panic. Realized I forgot to turn on the automatic egg turner when I set my turkey hatching eggs 7 days ago. How bad should I expect this to be?

I am in day 20 since I set my quail eggs (tuxedo, Rosetta, and jumbo browns) in my incubator. Put them in lockdown on day 15. Decided to float test them since nothing had happened yet. The first egg floated on its side but it's cheeping. The rest mostly floated as viable eggs. The shell on the...

I have three turkeys, standard bronze, that are now seven months old. I watched them over the fall to see who might be a tom and who might be a hen, and thought I figured it out when they started displaying at the dog, and once at me when I was clipping one of their wings, but, now I'm not so...

What is wrong with my chicken? She is a 1 year old Salmon Faverolle, and has lost feathers on her face around her beak and just below it. The skin seems inflamed, and just today she started making a kind of wheezy sound when she sqwaks. Normally, she has a scratchy voice and goes on and on...

I have a turkey hen that went broody this past week. I have an opportunity to buy some fertile turkey eggs to put under her, as I do not have a Tom. How likely is she to sit on them and hatch them?

One of my Salmon Faverolles is acting very strangely.. She spent all day in a nesting box, and has not laid an egg. Everybody else has been in, laid, and back out but she just stayed. At one point, when the other Faverolle persisted in looking in on her she kind of freaked out and popped out...

I have provided four nesting boxes made out of 5 gallon buckets that my girls used to use exclusively with no problem. I moved them into a bigger coop, and they were still using the buckets. Then my younger girls started laying their first eggs in January and no matter what I did they refused...

I have a RIR that is about 10 months old. She has always been a bit of a bully with my group of 6 younger chickens. We got them when she was about 5 months old, and she just doesn't tolerate them very well. She will deliberately find ways to push them around. If I put out scratch, which I do...

I combed the forums, and gleaned what I could, but, wanted to post the outcome of our attempting to butcher two turkeys using the most humane methods we could find. So, here goes. We purchased chickens as novices, really only half way thru the research and learning process, because my...

We figured out the hard way that a child's playhouse may work for a few chickens, but, it is woefully inadequate for fourteen. This is what we ended up with when we converted a 4x6 cedar playhouse into a chicken coop. We attached a cabinet onto the back window to create places for nesting...

I had a chick that initially, at about a week old, would roll around on it's back, screeching, and scratching it's ears. I treated it for ear mites, and after a day or so the episodes stopped. I continued treating for a week, and I also treated it's brood mates just to be on the safe side...

We set out originally to have 6 chickens in our little backyard, well, by little I mean it is the better part of a third of an acre,but, still, it's no hobby farm. My grand idea for a chicken coop was to take the victorian play house that I was sure my little girls (human girls) would love to...

It sounds like the beginning of a cute story book, that I may just write, but, for now, it is my reality and it's kind of frustrating me. I have a group of four hens that are almost 17 weeks old, and a group of four hens that are 8 weeks old. The older girls live in the coop and free range...

We bought two little poults, both three weeks old, from a local poultry farmer. He had the turkey chicks in a brooder with some other game bird chicks, all had been hatched from eggs in an incubator. His operation was pretty big in my view, not in size so much as the variety of poultry he...

Our little three week old silver laced wyandotte chick has been fully treated for ear mites after a few days of suffering with the scratching and rolling around cheeping loudly, poor little thing. I treated her and the three brooder mates for 7 days with the ear mite drops, and while she has...

Hello, We are Tim and Teri Anderson, most of the posting will be by me, Teri. We just started raising chickens not quite two months ago after many months of preparations, and years of planning to eventually raise some hens for eggs. With our busy lives we didn't want to rush into getting...

We just picked up four new chicks from the Cal Ranch (2 RIR's and 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte) which are probably not quite a week old. One of the Wyandotte chicks out of nowhere started having spells where she would scratch at her ear, cheeping loudly, and then fall asleep for a bit, just to wake...